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  • The Cost of Living

    Writing Workshop: The Cost of Living

    Virtual Event

    Whether you write in poetry, prose, or not at all, we invite you to this workshop to process the literal and metaphorical costs of living as a Black Indigenous Person...

  • Celebrate With Us

    Writing Workshop: Won’t You Celebrate With Me?

    This workshop invites you to come celebrate our creativity, goodness and resistance to the ways our class system has tried to kill us-and failed. Through reading and writing, we will center the stories of Indigenous people and people of color who are and have been poor and working class. Because all of us have been...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    In the Eye of the Beholder

    Featured
    Virtual Event

    In Toni Morrison’s first novel “The Bluest Eye,” her character Pecola Breedlove faces unspeakable troubles in her young life and believes her problems will go away if only she had blue eyes. For years, women of color have been writing about how American beauty standards affect them, and for years, the beauty industry has been...

  • Writing Life Recipes

    Writing Workshop: Writing Life “Recipes”

    Featured
    Virtual Event

    In this workshop, we will use guided creative writing exercises to invent life “recipes” such as "How to Live a Life Worth Telling" or "How to Forgive Your Haters." The...

  • Embracing Our Roots

    Black Table Arts 3737 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN

    A Partnership with More Than a Single Story, Black Table Arts, and In Black Ink Second Friday of the month from Sept. 21-Feb. 22 unless otherwise stated. 6:00-7:30 p.m. The...

  • The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers

    Virtual Event

    In this More Than a Single Story conversation, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre, Gabrielle Civil, Valerie Deus, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile, and all that we carry with us in...

  • EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: Alanna Morris-Van Tassel in conversation with Arleta Little & Ellena Schoop

    Virtual Event

    After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Alanna Morris-Van Tassel will join Arleta Little and...

  • Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems

    Virtual Event

    In the Cento form, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. This exercise encourages participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various...

  • Exploring Home, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs

    Virtual Event

    How can writing help you reclaim life, forge new languages and build a brighter future after experiencing exile or separation from one’s home? How can self-awareness expand our writing and...